Rank the Titans starting QBs

Phil Rivers was a franchise QB and was top 5 for quite a few years... act like that's an insult and I'll assume you started watching football within the past 2 seasons.

What Volek DID do was come in and expose McNair for being the crappy QB many of us assumed he was.

Back then the fans made all the excuses in the world for McNair. "It's the receivers! It's the receivers!!"... yet, unknown Billy Volek came off the bench and all of a sudden our receivers looked pretty damned good. All of a sudden we passed the ball. We scored points. We broke franchise records...

... but he didn't outplay him? He took his job. Well, until he upset Jeff Fisher the next season.

Volek wasn't a scrub but you're overrating him like crazy. Did you actually watch the games that season or just looked at the boxscore? By the time Volek replaced McNair, our season was a lost cause already so Volek got the green light to freelance and that drastically padded his numbers (or maybe you already knew Volek wasn't that good and buttering him up was just an excuse to hate on McNair, see last paragraph for what I mean).

And you act like Volek had a pro bowl year or something, he had two monster games that helped him haveadecent overall season, but he is what he is, a career back up. There's a reason why we traded him for a bag of chips and to a team that already had a franchise QB. If he was anywhere near as good as you make him out to be, he would have gotten a shot somewhere.

It's ironic that you call out people for overrating McNair because he's dead when you like to criticize him for the very same reason. I can bet if McNair was alive, you wouldn't criticize him nearly as much and that's because you say things for shock value, to get a reaction, because you know a lot of people are sensitive when it comes to McNair.

In 2004, Billy Volek became only the fourth quarterback in NFL history—along with Dan Marino, Dan Fouts, and Phil Simms—to pass for over 400 yards in two consecutive games,a feat that was also accomplished in 2008 by New England quarterback Matt Cassel and in 2011 by Tom Brady and Cam Newton. In doing so, he set the all time record for passing yards in back to back games with 918.No other quarterback in the history of the NFL has thrown for more yards in back to back games than Volek.

Now we know what happened with Fisher saying Volek lied or was untruthful then traded him to the San Diego Chargers to backup Phillip Rivers.Could we have gotten more for Volek? Think for a minute about Matt Flynn and Kevin Kolb who started as backups.Both of these quarterbacks did less than Volek did back then and got insane offers when they strung together some decent games and some teams that were desperate got intrugued about how well they might do if given a chance at being starter and one traded quite a bit doing it while the other paid a lot.Kolb was traded by the Philadelphia Eagles to Arizona for Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and a second round draft pick.Seattle Seahawks signed Flynn to a three year 20 million dollar deal only to have him sit as a backup again when Russell Wilson beat him for the starters job.Kolb was let go after two losing seasons in Arizona.

How come we couldn't have done something similar with Volek because he proved he could play here in Tennessee.He replaced Rivers in a 2008 playoff game against the Colts and lead the Chargers to a win on the road in the last minutes of the game.

Volek wasn't a scrub but you're overrating him like crazy. Did you actually watch the games that season or just looked at the boxscore? By the time Volek replaced McNair, our season was a lost cause already so Volek got the green light to freelance and that drastically padded his numbers (or maybe you already knew Volek wasn't that good and buttering him up was just an excuse to hate on McNair, see last paragraph for what I mean).

And you act like Volek had a pro bowl year or something, he had two monster games that helped him haveadecent overall season, but he is what he is, a career back up. There's a reason why we traded him for a bag of chips and to a team that already had a franchise QB. If he was anywhere near as good as you make him out to be, he would have gotten a shot somewhere.

It's ironic that you call out people for overrating McNair because he's dead when you like to criticize him for the very same reason. I can bet if McNair was alive, you wouldn't criticize him nearly as much and that's because you say things for shock value, to get a reaction, because you know a lot of people are sensitive when it comes to McNair.

Saying he outplayed McNair is hardly overrating him.

And I hated on Steve McNair his last 2 seasons here and his time in Baltimore because I honestly thought he sucked.

However-- I stayed the same while everyone else gave him the Tupac treatment because he got killed.

I couldn't care less whether he's alive or not. I'm simply analyzing him as a player- and he was great for about 1 season- mediocre for all the others.

What idiot would judge Mcnair primarily on his last 2 seasons here? Duece! He was a starting QB for this franchise for 9 years ad a top 10 QB for at least 5 of those years.

Anybody who would rate Mauch or smith above KFC is brain dead.

nope

KFC was the worst 'QB' ever for the Titans. At least Mauck, Simms, Johnson ect did not hurt the Titans by getting snaps. Sure they probably had less talent than KFC I say questioning why they were in The League, but at least they rode the pine instead of costing the Titans games.

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